Scar download.jpg” alt=”barron” width=”541″ height=”313″ />If you don’t follow city politics, don’t care too much about the long-term implications of the TBNYU! protest inside the Kimmel Center, or are looking for proof from an elected official that his initial position on TBNYU! has changed as more details of the groups’ exploits in the Kimmel Center have emerged, this article is not going to appeal to you in any way. Still here? Excellent. Read more…

We’ll be getting back to regular posting over the next couple of days but, with the TBNYU!/Kimmel occupation disciplinary hearings beginning today, here’s a look at some of the major player’s in last week’s fiasco.

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Farah Khimji: Sure, her radical-ness makes Che Guevera look like a particularly docile sloth, and sure, she may have been lying to us about the guard brutality, but she was one of TBNYU!’s only leader willing to stay until the very end. For that, props.

Caitlin Boehne: After going against the student senate despite being a member, she backed out of the protest as well, leaving Kimmel about 20 minutes after telling us she was in it for the long haul. Also, she said the Senate is weak and ineffective.  Then why not resign?

Duncan Meisel: Once one of the most respected of “those kids” at NYU.  He stood by TBNYU!’s principles and gave us some awesome editorials.  He finally joined the protesters in Kimmel (baller – way to stand by your team!), but then left before he could get in trouble (weak – are revolutionaries always such pansies?). *Duncan asked that we switch out his pic. We did it because we agree that this one’s more adorable.

More occupants and administrators after the jump.

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The student who is holding the camera and narrating the event is not an NYU Student. He goes to Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.

This is just torturous. Clearly the poor kid who is filming is trying to sort things out as everything falls apart around him. Maybe NYU should teach a class on how to protest effectively. Jack Manely could teach.

Read and see more about the protest here, and here.

After emerging breathlessly from her 3rd day spent holed up in Kimmel, TBNYU!’s Farah Khimji had much to say concerning her epic ordeal. Alongside New York City Councilman Barron, Khimji made claims of security guard brutality, including “3-4 big men throwing [her] to the ground.” She explained that all TBNYU students that remained until Friday (an estimated 10 students) were to be suspended and kicked out of NYU housing.

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For live updated coverage, go to this post. The following is a press release from the university.

Just received a statement from NYU spokesman John Beckman Explicit ills download. The most important info:

“A number of students left during the night. This morning the University summarily suspended the remaining students. Any non-NYU students will be turned over to the police for arrest as trespassers; we will notify their schools of the participation in improper activity. Any students who refuse to identify themselves will be assumed to be non-NYU students.”

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Untamed heart download.jpg” alt=”dsc_0023″ width=”530″ height=”351″ />After thirty hours of liveblogging the TBNYU! occupation from the Kimmel Center cafeteria, NYU Local National editor and all around bad ass Charlie Eisenhood returned to his bed around 3am this morning. His coverage was more comprehensive than anything else available and his willingness to continue blogging amidst the hostile masses pretty impressive. We tried to arrange a body switch to send in another reporter when he left but the NYU admin was having none of it so we’ll be harassing TBNYU! kids still in Kimmel and administrators alike in search of information for the rest of the day. Check back here for updates and follow our twitter for info as it comes in.

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The ongoing TBNYU! Kimmel protest has failed to stimulate any significant discussion about NYU students’ financial situation.  Instead, most of the discussion has been about whether or not TBNYU!’s demands actually represent those of the student population and if their actions are justified. Amongst the twenty some activists who’ve been camping out for the last two nights, Caitlin Boehne finds herself in an especially awkward position because she is both an active TBNYU! protester and an elected Student Senator.

Boehne ran on a platform acknowledging her TBNYU! membership and was a negotiator for TBNYU! throughout the occupation.  It is clear she is one of the leading members of TBNYU!, even if the group will not admit to any such hierarchy.  Whether or not she participated in the planning and organization of the protest is unclear, but her involvement in such illegitimate political action is in direct conflict with the nature of her Senatorship See spot run download.  Actions like the Kimmel fiasco display a conviction that our student government is so ineffective in conveying grievances to the administration that prohibited action is justified.  If Caitlin believes this to be so, she needs to ask herself whether she belongs in the Student Government any longer.  We need to ask ourselves whether we want her there.